VLOOKUP not working correctly

I'm not really clear what you are trying to do, can you explain again - what results do you want to get in U8, U9 etc.?

You are using =ROWS($U$8:U8) as your "lookup value" and that evaluates to 1 - 1 isn't found in the first column of the "lookup range" (column B) so you get #N/A


...if you want to look up the number in column Q and return the value from B then you can't use VLOOKUP for that (it's a so-called "left lookup") but you can use INDEX/MATCH, e.g.

=INDEX(B$8:B$1000,MATCH(ROWS($U$8:U8),Q$8:Q$1000,0))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkPoViUhkxU

Here is a youtube video I am going through. I am trying to create a searchable drop down menu but at the moment I am just incrementing rows, I am simply trying to get the correct number of the search "VW" to be displayed which should be 6 as there is 6 VWs. Please look at the youtube video starting at 3:20 and go up to 7:00. You will then understand what I am trying to do as the guy on the video explains it

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